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cannot pop up a new witness this late into the trial and expect justice to be served. the prosecution does not know how to handle this witness and they were supposed to have an deposition and challenge what this witness may be anticipating to say, and that has not happened, so it is not fair to the state and not fair the trial and not fair to the public interest, and i think that here we are talking about a judge who is getting increasingly angry about the defense, and the defense tactics just really are not fair to this case, and to the public interest. >> and let's focus on those. nice weekend and a lot of americans outside and missed what happened in the casey anthony courtroom, and the judge taking note with the defense team strategy and even threatening to hold jose baez, the defense attorney, in contempt. given the defense strategy which you have noted thus far has involved everything from putting an ex-felon on the stand to claims that casey was sexually abused by her father. is mr. baez pushing his luck here? >> i think that he is, peter. look, the defense in some ways is free to be unethical, and it is free to put up these nonsensical witnesses and do these distracting dog and pony show tactics, because what is going to happen to jose baez? worst case scenario, he is held in contempt and pays a fine and factors that into the cost of doing business unlike the prosecution. if they are unfair and make up stuff and put up bogus witnesses or late witnesses they didn't share in advance of the defense, cases are dismiss and the evidence is dismissed and sanctions can be issued. so the prosecution is being fair and defense unfair, but jose baez is in my opinion unconcerned about any kind of ethical sanctions, because he is trying to save this woman's life, and is literally playing below the belt, and could care a less about paying a fine in this case. >> thank you, wendy. the supreme court has ruled in favor of walmart in a fight to block a massivis ex de is ei discrimination lawsuit by women. and pete is live at the supreme court. what have we heard? >> this is to be the largest class action suit in american history with 1.5 million women suing walmart for sexual discrimination, and the question before the supreme court was if this suit could go forward to trial to decide whether walmart did commit sexual discrimination. they had two points to strike down, and first it was unanimous saying that the class action lawsuit was too blunt an instrument and mixed together all kinds of sclams. claims for example a judge to order that walmart had in fact discriminated along with requests for backpay. the court said that backpay decisions will differ for each woman, and a class action is not the way to resolve those questions. that is 9-0. in a way you could say, well, the women could fix that problem and come at walmart again, because that is to the second point today. the court was 5-4 to say that there is just nothing to hold this class action together. justice antonin scalia who wrote the opinion on this part says there has to be a glue to hold the claims together and something that every woman in the class has in common, and the court said that evidence is lacking here. the court said thatle walmart a central policy against dist m discriminati discrimination, and leaves individual hiring and promotion policies to each store manager. and they said that it does not show enough commonality and cannot tie each allegeded case of discrimination to some central policy of walmart. that is the more serious hurdle for the women to get across if they try this class action again, peter. >> pete williams at the supreme court with that breaking news. thank you. a white house decision to step up the withdrawal from afghanistan could come as early as this week. meanwhile, the president is facing new pressure on all sides and many democrats and gop presidential contenders are calling for a speedier pull-out while some republicans say that would spell disaster. >> for us to abandon afghanistan to the tender mercies of the taliban and radical islamic extremists would be repeating the mistakes that we made before. >> we accelerate withdrawal right now, because we are weary we will lose this war. >> jim miklaszewski is joining us live now, and we heard some condemnation of this policy. so what is going to be leading up to the decision by president obama and what do we expect to hear from him? >> well, a number of factors here at work. the death of osama bin laden which created an outcry at capitol hill saying that our number one nemesis is gone and why can't we withdraw the troops quicker. there is the economic consideration at home where budgets absolutely have to be cut somepla i place, but not on republicans warning about a rapid withdrawal prematurely, but also the secretary of defense gates and the top u.s. commander there in afghanistan now general david petraeus who are warning that any progress made there so far is fragile and reversible. and the very fact that we are in the middle of a fighting season there in afghanistan would make it very difficult to withdraw large numbers of forces from afghanistan too quickly. now, the president is expected to make his decision and perhaps an announcement some time later this week, and what is probably likely is that we will see a large number, but it is going to be stretched out over a long period of time, peter. >> well, it could be a crucial turning point in the longest american war. thank you very much. and the fight over the deficit and the debt ceiling will intensify over the next few weeks, but a bipartisan effort may have been a positive sign for what is to come. president obama and speaker boehner joining forces saturday on the greens outside of washington. pulling ahead of the vice president ohio governor john kasic and they won $2 each which is not enough to buy a drink in washington, but they will take what they can get. what are the takeaways of this winning round? we want to bring in two experts on this. jonathan an author of the bloomberg view. and richard wall whosh is author of "renegade, the making of a president" and jonathan, since you are in house, we will talk to you first, and you will have to hold a second, richard. this is not usual that you will see boehner and obama smiling in joint company. is this just a round of golf or more to the show that we witnessed this weekend? >> well, it is more than just golf. because personal relations, peter, so are important in washington. it's a lot harder to really go after somebody in a nasty way if you know them personally. we all understand that. and the strange thing is that these two guys have not known each other very well personally. so this is important in them just beginning to understand each other a little bit better in the way that tip o'neill and ronald reagan did. they didn't, you know, agree politically, but they could at least do business because they liked each other okay personally. >> you rarely see the two of them smiling at the same time over the same topic and in this case maybe golf, but richard, what is the message to americans right now? what is the significance of this to us? >> well, aside from the two guys having fun, the importance here is that the two sides want to look like they are working together. that is obvious to a point, but remember, republicans have crawled out on a limb here on two things. first of all, on the debt ceiling, they know they are getting pressure from the wall street to say you cannot play with this kind of fire, and secondly on the medicare question on the paul ryan budget, and they need a way back off of the limb, and they need to have a way to get back to the independent voters that the president has lost, and so there is an interest on both sides to make this work. the question for white house and i guess for republicans, too, is that can either side deliver? and can the two sides get on as the two men get on and boehner deliver the caucus and the president willing to buck the party and find the middle ground? >> even as they make progress here in this administration, there is a fight over who will host the next administration? and jonathan, the gop conference with a straw poll, and the surprise was the fact that jon huntsman came in second, and we will hear his name a lot this week even though he skipped this weekend's event, and he will announce his official candidacy for president tomorrow. who does he pose the biggest threat to with the republican candidates? >> well, clearly, mitt romney, because they are both mormon businessmen, and they appeal to the same hearts of the republican party, but then there's also the rick perry factor, and a lot of noise about the governor of texas getting in. he has a record of job creation in texas, although i'm not sure he deserves full credit for it, but it looks pretty good. he also called for the texas to secede from the united states at one point. >> may have to answer to that. >> and i'm not sure how much folks will care about that in the republican primaries, but the point, peter, is that this field is still not set. it could go a lot of different directions here, but john huntsman who is getting in the race formally this week at the statue of liberty is an impressive candidate, and i think that he will look good in the cattle calls when they get that side by side comparison of republicans. >> and richard, the time is limited on this conversation, but another breakout performance for michele bachmann who gave one of the barnstorming speeches, but so did rick perry, and we are e startistarting to enthusiasm for his entry. and can bachmann have enough to keep perry on the sidelines? >> well, she may do okay in iowa, but these things are fluid. you should not trust the national polls. look at it state by state. rick perry would come out strong in south carolina which has formidable fund-raising to go through super tuesday and if you are looking for a strong populist candidate, you have to go with rick perry. >> i don't like to call them populist, because they are folks standing up against wall street and the power overbusinei of bue don't hear those themes much in the republican party, but they are red meat versus balance sheet, and business folks versus the social groups. >> still plenty of time to talk about the race in 2012. and the casey anthony case is coming to an abrupt halt. we will take you live to the courthouse to find out why. that is coming up. also, a flight attendant is arrested accused of stealing someone's identity to land the job, and what's worse, he was an illegal immigrant, and what does it say about the state of our airline security. all of that is next on msnbc. this is the aarp... back live now on msnbc with this breaking news in the casey anthony case. the trial has been brought to an abrupt halt until 9:00 tomorrow morning. we want to take you live now to orlando where nbc's lillian luciano is on the phone with us. do we have any better understanding of why this recess was called? >> good morning, peter. we heard from jeff ashton this morning who requested more time to study mr. rodriguez' deposition, because he was only able to depose this witness saturday, because according to him and according to judge perry, jose baez kept the information of his witness of his testimony from the state. because of this violation, judge perry allowed for the state to depose him on saturday, but the attorney ashton, jeff ashton said that he did not have enough time to study and prepare for cross-examination. there's a second witness that was supposed to be called to the stand today, and the same thing happened. it was a pretty incredible to hear how jeff ashton said that, again he did not have this witness's information from the state. so these two witnesses were ruled about and there was a third witness that we don't know yet why this witness was not called to the stand. so we will hear tomorrow morning at around 9:00 a.m. >> and lilia, it is day 23 of the case, and it is a social media sensation, i think, is the best way to put it. we have heard from the judge multiple times in the last several days, and even early this morning scolding both sides the defense and the prosecution, and encouraging them to look at the clock in the courtroom to demonstrate how much time they had been wasting in the case. can you explain more about the frustration of the judge right now about the shenanigans as some have described them that have extended the case now into the fifth week? >> well, judge perry, peter, is certainly growing aggravated. he reprimanded both sides and the detail that they said that different times when he told them to look at the clock is another example of proof that they will never agree on anything. right now, during the weekend he was mostly aggravated at jose baez' strategy that he was calling all of the witnesses without disclosing their information, their opinions to the state, but then today, because of jeff ashton's time, and the time that he took in asking for these extensions, he was pretty aggravated at both. he said, don't waste our time. he said that they should both be prepared for longer days, for shorter lunch breaks and for full saturdays. he cited the possibility of a mistrial down the road, and in particular in terms of jose baez' strategy. he says that the florida bar will see with this later on after the trial is over. >> and you mentioned mistrial and this whole process going all over again. and lilia luciano outside of the courtroom in florida. and more breaking news we want to update you on the wildfires in the southwest that simply will not stop. those fires that you see on the screen are now raging in several states, and they are showing no sign of slowing down. in the southern arizona city of sierra vista, it is called, authorities have now ordered yet more evacuations. meanwhile, crews in that state of arizona continue to battle flames fighting winds of up to 50 miles per hour as they fan the flames closer to heavily-populated areas. and in east texas now, firefighters are trying to contain a 23 square mile blaze about 100 miles north of houston. so far, that fire is already blamed for destroying two unoccupied homes. it is fortunately about 40% contained this monday. he took aim at the president and at republicans, but apparently, it was the jokes at the gop that got him yanked from the stage. the president obama impersonator rejected from the republican conference joins us live coming up. you name it. i've tried it. but nothing's helped me beat my back pain. then i tried this. it's salonpas. this is the relief i've been looking for. salonpas has 2 powerful pain fighting ingredients that work for up to 12 hours. and my pharmacist told me it's the only otc pain patch approved for sale using the same rigorous clinical testing that's required for prescription pain medications. proven. powerful. safe. salonpas. britta olsen is my patient. i spend long hours with her checking her heart rate, administering her medication, and just making her comfortable. one night britta told me about a tradition in denmark, "when a person dies," she said, "someone must open the window so the soul can depart." i smiled and squeezed her hand. 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[ crickets chirping ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] advanced gas turbine technology from ge. ♪ back live on msnbc, there are new security concerns emerging after a flight attendant on an american eagle airlines allegedly stole another man's identity in order to fly around the globe. listen to this, officials say that johan porter an illegal immigrant from guyana assumed the identity of a 40-year-old man from new york named anthony fryer, and they are trying to figure out how porter was able to bypass the entire federal screening process to be hired as a flight attendant given that the man whose identity he allegedly assumed had a very clear criminal record. all you had to do was to google his name to see that criminal record. jim tillman is an aviation expert and former pilot joining us live from phoenix, arizona. jim, i appreciate your time, and the story seems to highlight security concerns on several fronts, so what do you find to be the most troubling aspect of a story like this from a security standpoint? >> well, the thing that is really amazing me, pete, is that we end up with a situation where the guy had a passport. the last time i got a passport you had to do everything, flip upside down and everything else to get a passport and how he had a passport, i have no idea. but look at the different agencies involved any one of which should have been able to catch this and stop it. >> one of the facts that has been brought here is that screening rules were tightened after 9/11, of course, so what specifically were the changes, and why didn't that enhanced screening stop this suspect in this case? >> well, background checks were considered to be extremely critical after 9/11, and of course, everybody involved is supposed to be able to conduct those at every level. that includes, of course, the airline which is certainly involved in this. i'm not letting them off of the hook simply because this guy had a passport, but they are supposed to do the background check and supposed to find out what this person is really all about, and is this the right person basically and what involves the kind of record they had and that sort of thing. it is appalling to me, and i have to tell you that it is kind of laughable in a way, but not very funny, because this could have been very serious. >> this illegal immigrant was arrested when he landed at mia, at miami, and he had been returning from his own personal trip to london using that passport as you note. so what kinds of changes specifically do you think need to be made to the screening process at this point to avoid this from happening again? >> peter, you know from experience, what happens is that we have a situation, 9/11, and everybody gets on alert, and everybody is careful and then a drop off. we got apathetic all of the sudden and not being as careful as we should be. you have to ask yourself the question, is there anyone else out there who is flying around in our airplanes that should not be there? so, we have to tighten up every place there is, every cheshgsck every background check, every personnel situation to make sure this thing is much, much more secure. >> jim tillman joining me from phoenix, arizona. thank you for your time, jim. >> same here, peter. and former president clinton says it is still the economy, stupid and he has 14 ideas to get the country back the work. is the president listening? and those little pools that people like to use, do they pose as much of a drowning risk as the larger pools? if you have one, you want to stick around for the next report live. with new extra-strength bayer advanced aspirin. it has microparticles so it enters the bloodstream faster and rushes relief right to the site of your tough pain. ♪ in fact, it's clinically proven to relieve pain twice as fast. new bayer advanced aspirin. extra strength pain relief, twice as fast. my dad worked for the water company when i was growing up. i grew up in california in the drought, and it was drilled into me by dad and many others about the need to save not just because it was some hippie dippy personal virtue, but because the state needed it, and the country needed it. >> we are in the middle of the desert. >> we are in the middle of the desert and if we are going to live here, we have to do it right or we won't be able to do it very long. good day to you. i'm peter alexander and here is what isp toing the news now. nato is apologizing for an air strike that killed several civilians happening in libya sunday. nato says that the problem they have been a weapons systems failure. libyan officials claimed that it killed nine civilians including two children in i tripoli. meanwhile the house is likely to vote this week to limit funding for military efforts in libya. this is pushback against the white house that did not seek congressional approval for the mission. the white house says it has not violated the war powers act. and senator john mccain says that president obama made the right choice in lending military support to the nato mission in libya, and mccain is taking members of the republican presidential field to task specifically mitt romney for opposing the mission. >> this is isolationism. there has always been an isolation strain or isolationist strain of the republican party, the pat buchanan wing of the party, but now it seems to have moved more center stage so to speak. >> and senator mccain also asked what ronald reagan would say today adding a quote saying that is not the republican party that has been willing to stand up for freedom, for people for all over the world. other news now, and supporters and opponents of gay marriage making last-minute appeals in new york state. today is the last day of the legislative session before summer recess, and the state senate is just a single vote away from making new york the sixth state to legalize same-sex marriage, and also the most populous state to allow it selling a huge victory for gay rights in the united states. former president bill clinton has more than a dozen ideas to get unemployed americans back into the workforce. he is the cover story for the latest issue of newsweek, and it is the economy, stupid, and it is still the economy, stupid is the title. and clinton's bullet points were tackling the economic issues ranging from energy policy and government innovation and some ideas bigger than others and while some could happen tomorrow, some are still tough ones to sell to other side of the aisle. dan stone is the correspondent for newsweek who is joining us outside of the white house right now, and dan, i want to highlight a few of the ideas that start with one that would get a lot of pushback from the right obviously, and it is described as cash for start-ups. a cash incentives for new businesses and part of a plan that makes the former president look forward-thinking, but isn't it almost an impossible sell to republicans trying to make spending cuts at every turn? >> right. he is starting on a unique premise for a lot of the older ideas and that premise is that we are probably not going to get more spending or stimulus, because the republicans won't allow it, and we won't get more tax cuts because the democrats won't allow it, so with that he goes with the list of 14 new ideas and the first one like you said is cash for start-ups, and take the tax incentives that you would have given to businesses and turn them into cash and actual money to i pa thpay themy have incentive and revenue to have tax cuts. >> and there are other ideas in the article that could be instituted tomorrow with rapid results and one that catches people's eye is number eight, painting them white as opposed to black on tar roofs to rye to make significant cuts to energy cost, and could an idea like that gain traction quickly on a national level? it is what the clinton administration did so well is some of the small ideas that helped to motivate individuals across the country. >> well, it could help and get off of the ground. the color black has the highest wavelength and absorbs more heat, and costs more to heat and cool the buildings in different seasons, but the difference is to get all of the countries and certainly all of washington's blacktop roofs painted white could be done tomorrow and for a low amount of money to get the momentum, but that is the hard part considering the bickering in congress over more substantial issues. >> we will start to call you dan stone the science guy. and what is the relationship between the former president bill clinton and the president? what is the relationship like these days? >> well, there is mutual respect. and remember when bill clinton showed up in the press briefing impromptu, and there is mutual respect like i said, but back to 2008 when president obama ran against hillary clinton and certainly her husband and there was an nimosity that has died hard, but there is not a real personal relationship and trust there, but certainly a professional respect and especially from someone like president clinton who had good economic success in his two terms. >> dan stone live outside of the white house today for us. dan, appreciate it very much. thank you, peter. as millions struggle to find jobs, america's wealthiest citizens are living in unprecedented luxury. you can see it on reality tv across the country, and now there is new data that says a rise in executive compensation is one of the predominant reasons for the rising income gap here in the united states. peter is a writer for the "washington post" and joining us live from washington to talk about this phenomenon, and thank you peter for joining us. it turns out the highest chunk of income earners are executives in the firm managers who are making so much money that the average american can't relate to them. you tell the story of the ceo and i think it is dean foods that you were talking about making $10 million a year and $6 million home in elite suburb outside of dallas and 64 acres in vail and you report four memberships at exclusive golf clubs. how has the executive grandeur evolved? >> well, that is one of the questions that people are going to be arguing over for a long time. i think. part of it is that what i have heard referred to as the lake woe be gone effect, and nobody wants to be average, so they look around to see what every other ceo is making and they want more than that and the next few and the next few does it and it is like an executive pay bubble in a way. >> is what the impact of this massive disparity on the rest of america? >> well, you know, i think that there's a different schools of thought on that. americans are divided. most people think that executive pay, they are uncomfortable with the extremes of executive pay, but there is still a lot of people who say, look, if they can make that much, fine. they should make that much, and maybe we think they are doing a great job, but other people think that there is some distortions here, and it is not fair. >> there is an old adage that people are familiar with that says it takes money to make money, and the question is, is that especially true now? >> you know, i don't know if it is true with a lot of these executives. it is still, the income divide in the united states really started in the '70s, started to grow in the '70s and the '80s got a little wider, but now it is really to the level of right before there was before the great depression. so there is not a lot of data on who these people are, and how it got to be that way, and economists are still fighting over it, so it is hard to make generalizations about things like that. >> as you report the latest figures show the top 0.41% of earners take home 10% of the personal income in this country. peter whorinsky of the "washington post" thank you. and now new stark warnings about kiddie pools. you know there is one likely in your backyard or the neighborhood, and while they are commonly seen in the backyards this season, experts say they are not as harmless as at least they look. tom costello in bethesda, maryland, with more. tom? >> well, peter, good day to you. we have seen since january 1st, 81 people drowned and 113 near-drownings in pools nationwide. of course if you are in a pool like this one where the swim team is practicing, you have lifeguards and people watching constantly, but it is the portable inflatable pools used in backyards that are a big concern. >> reporter: the tragedies come every summer. last year in ohio, it was 3-year-old jacquelyne holt mckinney who drowned after being left unattended at an inflatable pool a tragedy repeated once every five days. and the inflatable pools that hold 100 to 500 gallons. >> the pools are so large that it is unlikely to dump out the water regularly, so it leaves the drowning standard up all summer long. >> reporter: the consumer safety commission found that there were 209 fatal drownings and 35 nonfatal drownings. 73% occurred in the child's own backyard and now the american academy of pediatrics has concluded that portable pools pose a significant risk for kids 5 and under. >> the thing that parent need to remember is that drowning is quick. it is silent and it is final. it can occur in a matter of just minutes and it can occur in a few inches of water. >> our simple motto is simple steps save lives. >> reporter: her daughter drowned in a neighbor's pool and she has worked to require four-foot fences with latching gates around every pool, even if it is portable. >> if you buy it without the fence, then it is a dangerous thing and i would recommend that people not buy it. save the money and take your children to a swim club to learn swimming lessons is a safer thing. >> reporter: the association of pool and spa professionals agree that layers of protection are key telling us that without constant adult supervision, strong toddlers will overcome a fenced a invent ed a id ed d a open, and can overcome adult supervision. as we have seen, backyard pools can have deadly consequences. >> thank you, tom costello. it was jokes about the republicans that gave this obama impersonator the boot from the stage. live from the studio, ladies and gentlemen, not the president of the united states, but looks like it. reggie brown is live next on msnbc. sir, good to see you. >> good to see you. >> appreciate your coming in here. >> thank you. my doctor told me calcium is best absorbed in small continuous amounts. only one calcium supplement does that in one daily dose. new citracal slow release... continuously releases calcium plus d for the efficient absorption my body needs. citracal. a network of possibilities. in here, the planned combination of at&t and t-mobile would deliver our next generation mobile broadband experience to 55 million more americans, many in small towns and rural communities, giving them a new choice. we'll deliver better service, with thousands of new cell 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leader with direct ties to the continent and they felt it was the best chance for africa to move out of the nations of the third world and helping them to fight government corruption, and famine and poverty and they say it has not happened at that point. the administration is defending itself saying that the president is engaged in african issues, and they are working to fight hunger in that continent and they have been involved in dealing with democratic regimes there and to tex tehe extent th have made changes to the bush era aids prevention, and they want to do more in health care with prevention of aids and so the first lady and the two girls will be there with a couple of other relatives, and the only person missing is the president, peter. >> thank you, ron motte, at the white house for us today. thank you very much. today, as we speak about the president, a surprising face at the republican leadership conference this weekend, and you may have missed it while you were enjoying the sun. it was a comedian impersonating the president staking the stage to deliver some controversial jokes to a packed house. a brave guy. and the impersonator is reggie brown, and he started with taking cracks at the president, and cracks at the president's biracial roots, but as soon as he started to roast the presidential hopefuls, then it all shifted. >> you got your front-runner, mitt romney. now -- don't get me wrong, he might make a great president along with his first lady, second lady and the third lady. now, it is unfortunate that tim pawlenty could not make it here, but cut him some slack, he is having his foot surgically removed from his mouth. oh, no, don't worry, luckily for him, it is covered under obamney care. >> as he started in on michele bachmann, that is when it started to change, and pat on the shoulder and the impersonator's mic was cut, and he was ushered off of the stage with a wave and good-bye. reggie brown joining us in the studio. prpt mr. president, we enjoy your being here. and what happened with the moment when they realized that, hey, bud, this is not the way we thought it should go? >> well, first, i'm honored to be here and thank you for the invitation. no, but when i was there, they told me prior to going out that i had 15 or 20 minutes and i had reached my time and escorted off the stage. >> well, 17 minutes in, you said you had a few jokes to come, and was pit jokes about the republicans that caused the problem of tim pawlenty who could not be there because he was having his foot surgically removed from his mouth, and that takes bravery to walk into a room full of republican conservative activists like that and start to dog them. >> well, thank you. for what i do, i entertain, everyone. i love people. so i am always working for different audiences, whether the republicans, democrats or anywhere in between and that is my material. that is what i do. i wiz as invited by the organiz of the republican leadership conference and i went there and did my thing and hadm so fun doing that. >> at the time there was a sound check and you had some slides at one point with mitt romney behind you and any point in the slide check or the sound check that you went through the check that somebody said, this is a problem, and did they know what you would say when you got up stage? >> we ran through the slides, you know, with the av guys there, and everything ran smoothly, so no hold-ups prior to taking the stage. >> did you get paid? >> of course. >> you said you were 17 minutes in out of a 20-minute set, and what else have you got? >> well, i got a few more jokes and you will have to wait to see those. >> you will have to wait to see those. where is the next appearance for reggie brown? >> well, man, we have so much going on and the phones are ringing off of the hook. last night i was on wwe's capital punishment event, and i don't know where i will be next. >> we have to be fair to a lot of people who were offended by what you said and they called some of the jokes that you said specifically about president obama racist. so i want to play one of the jokes and then get a reaction from you. >> sure. >> my father was a black man from kenya, and my mother was a white woman from kansas. so, yes, my mother loved a black man and, no, she was not a kardashian. >> rej dggie, did you go too fa with the jokes about the president? >> no. the president and i share a similar background and my father is black and my mother is white, and i would never do anything to disrespect the president to make him feel uncomfortable. he has done some things with the correspondents dinner where he came out and played the whole "lion king" dinner and holding up ra ffiki up, and i don't thi that i crossed any lines. for it to be called a racist joke is beyond me. >> have you heard from the white house in any way? >> no. >> you have been at this for three years, have you heard from them in three years? >> yes, i have a friend who is involved with the people at the white house and able to go to the rally at sony studios a couple of months back, so i bac. i was able to meet religion you love and the president turned and waved alt my friend sarah and i. they know i exist. i hope that they like my material. >> mr. preponderate, reggie brown, we appreciate your time today. >> thanks. >> nice to meet you. surprising new revelations in bristol palin's new book she's not the only political daughter to come into her own. daughter to come into her own. the flip side is next.what do y? restrained driver... sir, can you hear me? just hold the bag. we need a portable x-ray, please! 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